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The Port of Whitman County, along with the Washington Public Ports Association (WPPA), is working with Ninth District Representative Mary Dye, R-Pomeroy, on a bill to the legislature to refine telecommunications authority for ports statewide.
Joe Poiré, executive director at the Port of Whitman County, said the association and ports are looking to update the authority to be more in line with technology today.
“The legislation is 17 years old,” he said. “And we want to refine that authority.”
Passed June 8, 2000, the law gives port districts the authority to “construct, purchase, acquire, devel...
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